From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30612 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2007 16:35:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 30603 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2007 16:34:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com (HELO e31.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.149) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:34:47 +0000 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1GGYkXs022827 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:34:46 -0500 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.2) with ESMTP id l1GGYjbY460724 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:45 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1GGYjNu012406 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:45 -0700 Received: from topology.austin.ibm.com (dyn95340159.austin.ibm.com [9.53.40.159]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l1GGYjNG012334; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:45 -0700 Received: by topology.austin.ibm.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 17C493A65A; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:34:44 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:35:00 -0000 To: Ed Smith-Rowland <3dw4rd@verizon.net> Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: test release gsl-1.8.90.tar.gz Message-ID: <20070216163444.GE923@austin.ibm.com> References: <873b57h9dg.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> <45D53B0C.1090109@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D53B0C.1090109@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q1/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:03:08AM -0500, Ed Smith-Rowland wrote: > I am in the middle of implementing special functions for gcc (The C++ > standards people are adding a list of special functions to the library - > or rather to an adjunct of the library.) Are you doing this by copying code from GSL, or is this an all-new implementation? I'd hate to see an all-new implementation become part of the standard; C++ has a history of wrecking things and so remarks like this make me nervous. (For example, the complex math type has been wrecked for half a decade, and I find it amazing that no effort has been made to fix it or make it operate in a compatible fashion. This is one reason I've stopped using C++ for mathematics; unfortunately, I still have a raft of old code, and so I continue to feel the pain.) --lnas